Hi Jonathan,
You asked, so I will answer. My opinion on audio and video is that I hope
the browser vendors see the multimedia light and implement the SMIL timing
and animation modules. They have to implement most of it anyway for SVG
1.1, so why not have a bit of foresight and:
* implement the few extra bits needed for future support for what is needed
for SVG-t 1.2
* implement the timing and animation engines as separate modules from SVG
so that it can be used on HTML also (similar to HTML+TIME in IE5.5)
* support SVG-t 1.2's audio and video tags in conjuntion with SVG content
* support audio and video content in conjunction with HTML's object tag
The tricky part is inclusion of industry-standard codecs, some of which
require paying licensing fees, which is hard for freely downloadable
software. To get around this issue, the browser vendors should hook into
existing audio/video player software (QuickTime, WMP, even maybe Flash) via
the HTML object tag which they control from their built-in SMIL engine.
I think this is an important issue for that part of the industry that wants
to create standards-compliant content and not rely on proprietary formats
and single-vendor runtimes. Multimedia is hitting the mainstream (driven in
part by all of those young people uploading bad videos for the world to
see). We need a standards-based approach to playing that content in
conjunction with rich user interfaces.
Jon
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Jon,
among other significant outstanding bugs that mozilla/firefox is
being really slow to resolve is the issue of audio or sound.
Aywk adobe had sound support from the start as does flash. in fact
many authors use flash solely to provide audio on webpages.
I just wondered whether you had considered this issue and whether you
felt it had relevance.
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
>> especially given the Mozilla/Firefox support for HTML+SVG
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